Hi

Just reviewing your SEO [j1.5] course and since I am redoing my site with J2.5, I would like to know aside from the metadata, which of the points in the course [see below] are actions that I would need to take as I am adding content [categories, articles, products etc.,] and which can wait until site is finished?
Plus are there any key changes in recommended steps now that we are using J2.5?

Also, regarding "Meta-Titles", I do not see a place in joomla to create them... only meta descriptions and meta keywords... Are we using the alias field here to enter these meta-titles?

Thanks
Scott

Hi
When you refer to Meta-Titles I think that you mean the browser page titles. If you go to your menu options under Page Display Options you will find Browser Page Title -you can set them to hide.
I am sure that every body does this differently but I start my making a list of terms that I hope people will use to search for the site. I suppose that this is why SEO is never finished! As time moves on and you talk to people that actually use the site you will find that the theoretical assumptions made for search terms are not the ones that people are using!
I would suggest that you get the site tile and meta info in global settings as you want it. Try to make every page a landing page using the Browser page title and meta info plus concentrating on the content - including search terms within the articles plus giving thought to all titles especially <h1>.
Once the site is built you can then spend endless hours tweaking!

Regards
Mark
Google tools are useful www.googlekeywordtool.com/

and static.googleusercontent.com/external_co...on-starter-guide.pdf

Thanks Mark

Where is this Page Display Option? In Joomla or in Browser? [EDIT: OK I FOUND THIS IN MENU MANAGER - SO TO UNDERSTAND CLEARLY, THE BROWSER PAGE TITLE IS THE META TITLE?]


From the OST Tutorial:

So when I go to create a new article, there is a title box, an alias box, a meta-description box, and a meta-keyword box. I do not understand from above where I would enter the page title and where this 65 character long "Meta Title".

Also another observation along the same lines: I notice that my eCommerce package (Hikashop) does not have an alias field for products nor categories... So IF the alias field is needed for SEO then I won't be able to create Meta-Titles for my products?

Thanks
Scott

Hi
Go to menu manager and click on main menu then click on a "page menu". On right hand side of page you can click on "Page Display Options" here you can enter your page title and set it to hidden - this will become the 65 character long browser page title. If nothing is entered in this box then the alias article title will become the browser title.
For the hikashop again you will have a menu so you can enter details.
(I have been called for my dinner - got to go!)
Regards
Back again. Did you look at the last link that I sent you from google about SEO - I had not seen it before but it is so good I have bookmarked it.

Hi again Mark

Thanks for those links I will be checking them out later this weekend. Also, thanks as I now have a better understanding of Meta-Titles [ie, browser page titles]!

Regards
Scott

Hi Scott,

Glad Mark was able to help out. I'm just posting to let you know we're follwing up and so we are sure this thread is closed. You don't have to answer this one.

Cheers,
Ed